Piers Akerman

Piers Akerman
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Monday,
July,
30,
2007,(11:04pm)

THE civil liberties’ lobby and its fellow travellers are trying to portray Dr Mohamed Haneef as the new David Hicks, conveniently glossing over the fact Hicks was a self-confessed al-Qaeda trainee whose own father believed he was a terrorist.

Piers Akerman
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Saturday,
July,
28,
2007,(3:29pm)

IN one of the most cynical stunts in Australian political history, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has falsely and quite cruelly raised the expectations of would-be homebuyers to believe a magic solution to home affordability is around the corner.

Piers Akerman
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Tuesday,
July,
24,
2007,(10:07am)

IT’S an open secret that the Friends of the ABC is little more than a front organisation for the ALP and the trade union movement.
Now a series of memos outlining a strategy for the Tasmanian branch of FABC to adopt in an endeavour to defeat the Howard Government is proof positive of the partisan nature of this so-called consumer body.

Piers Akerman
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Saturday,
July,
21,
2007,(5:21pm)

IT’S no real surprise that the book actually flying out of the stores this weekend is the new Harry Potter novel, and not John Winston Howard: The Biography despite the best attempts by the ABC and the Fairfax newspapers to promote the latter.

While students of Australians politics will learn nothing new from the biography, Harry’s fans will be scrabbling through the pages to discover whether Harry defeats his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and if he pays the ultimate price, as has been hinted at.

Piers Akerman
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Saturday,
July,
21,
2007,(3:09pm)

THE YouTube generation has joined the Kumbaya crowd in its love for simple solutions to complex problems, from global warming to global poverty, and they both relish any chance to flaunt their boundless compassion.

Piers Akerman
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Monday,
July,
16,
2007,(5:28pm)

HISTORICALLY, it was always the wealthier, better-educated young men and women at the best of the Western world’s universities who were suckers for socialism. These groups even flirted with Communism as leftist philosophies paralysed intellectual and economic progress across the world.

Piers Akerman
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Thursday,
July,
12,
2007,(9:43am)

IT SHOULD really come as no surprise that entrenched Labor leaders like the Northern Territory’s Clare Martin, WA Premier Alan Carpenter, and the ACT’s John Stanhopeless are opposed to Prime Minister John Howard’s task force on indigenous child abuse.
The NT Government headed by Martin, a former ABC journalist, is threatening legal action to block the Howard Government’s reforms when the legislation is revealed in a fortnight’s time.
Carpenter (another former ABC journalist) and Stanhopeless called the long overdue reforms ``racist’’ when they were first announced.
These Labor figures are at odds with former NT Labor MP and QC John Reeves, a member of Howard’s task force, who prepared a review of the NT Aboriginal land rights act in 1998.

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Piers has been one of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph's best-read columnists since 1993. One of the nation's most respected journalists he has worked in New York, London, Washington and Los Angeles.